Chris Bishop

That means Nicola Willis.

Now, Chris Bishop's in a little bit of a different situation.

He may have a chance

to be

potatoes very cool

potatoes like your dog um here is a bit of a breaking news story for you it's not completely breaking um i would like to announce the very sad um departure of the new zealand first candidate from hut valley because winston peters has endorsed chris bishop

this electorate has one of the closest and most consequential races for a local MP in the whole country.

But

As a backbencher.

He's a good candidate, a very good candidate, and we are grateful for him to be standing.

But last week, Alistair endorsed Nationals candidate Chris Bishop for the electorate vote.

Now this is very, very unique in the history of this party for the last 33 years.

So I do.

I mean, it's possible that National will pursue this Chris Bishop madness.

I mean, let's remember Chris Bishop was a tobacco lobbyist previously, and as a tobacco lobbyist, he said that tobacco companies should be compensated if we introduce private plain packaging for tobacco.

He said we were destroying their intellectual property.

So he has been consistently far right.

Please introduce us.

Yes, Matanuku Mahuika, he was appointed a King's Council along with 11 others by the Attorney General, Chris Bishop, earlier this month.

And we understand from the iwi he's the first KC that hails from Ngarikurau, which is quite exciting.

Yeah, and...

And with the party vote at, what, 29%, that is not beyond the realms of possibility that they get more electorate seats than their party vote would otherwise entitle them to.

No, and that is like trouble central for senior MPs, the likes of Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Paul Goldsmith.

Paul Goldsmith, he's joining us in

20 minutes.

Nicola Willis, Finance Minister.

If you didn't understand the confusion about the knifing, I was talking about Simon knifing the National Party today, but she was talking about herself and Chris Bishop and Todd Muller knifing Simon, so awkward.

But maybe it's a case of what goes around comes around.

Nicola Willis, Finance Spokesperson for the National Party.

But the reason that this matters, again, is the situation that National is in in terms of its numbers and the very real risk when it was polling around that 28%, it needed to lose something like 10 or 11 MPs just to get Nicola Willison off the list.

Then you've got Chris Bishop, who's in a very tight battle in his electorate race as well.

You've got the Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, and so forth.

So this is one of the reasons they will be very anxious to get back up into the 30s, right? Whatever happens, Andrew.

But the reason that this matters, again, is the situation that National is in in terms of its numbers and the very real risk when it was polling around that 28%, it needed to lose something like 10 or 11 MPs just to get Nicola Willison off the list.

Then you've got Chris Bishop, who's in a very tight battle in his electorate race as well.

You've got the Speaker, Gerry Brownlee, and so forth.

So this is one of the reasons they will be very anxious to get back up into the 30s, right? Whatever happens, Andrew.